... linked to the date of the liberalization. Eichengreen forthcoming reviews thedataand methodological differences among most of these and other studies. (For discussions of the different data measures, ... quickly and others do not. That is, the variation in the dependent variables comes from both the time series andthe cross-sections, and some pooling of data is necessary to address the questions. ... Models 3.1 and 3.3 report the base model results for PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 data, respectively. Models 3.2 and 3.4 add current account indicators to the models for PWT 6.0 and PWT 5.6 data, respectively....
... Very often, the person who takes such a stand will command the respect of their peers—many of whom may wish that they too could make a similar commitment. Nonetheless, such a stand can also ... family. The disciplines of the learning organization will, I believe, end the taboo that has surrounded the topic of balancing work and family, and has kept it off the corporate agenda. The learning ... and money trying to devise clever programs for developing leadership in our organizations and ignore a structure that already exists, and which is ideal for the job. The more I understand the...
... of theseDataThreads, one to handle data “traffic” from the keyboard to the remote, and one to handle bytes arriving from the remote and copy them to the standard out-put. For each of these the ... you will be told if another application wants touse the port. Then you can either close the port andthe other application will getit, or ignore the request andthe other program will get a ... SCSI and Ethernet controllers, and others via parallel ports. You can, in theory, open any ofthese devices and control them; the logic of controlling such devices is left as anexercise for the...
... Management: The Connection between Knowledge and Behavior 317 annual percentage rate because they pay off theirbalances in full each month, but they may want tocompare other fees, terms, and features.Credit ... how they scored on the saving index and ranged from about one out of six in the low group to three out of four in the high group.To compare the consistency of these estimates withthose of the ... ofrespondents in the Surveys of Consumers said thatthey saved regularly, and a lower proportion said thatthey did not save (table 4). The differences in the results are not surprising given that the Surveys...
... information regarding the interventionitself, the statistical analyses performed, andthe methodology and adequate discussion of the generalizability of the results and howthey fit in the context of ... psychotherapy should be representative of the 373PSYCHOTHERAPY AND SURVIVAL Psychotherapy and Survival in Cancer: The Conflict Between Hope and EvidenceJames C. CoyneAbramson Cancer Center of the ... rationale for their investigation. As well,they adequately reported on the content of the interventions, the statistical analytic decisions, andthe dates of recruitment and follow-up, and they addressed...
... readingcomprehension and listeningcomprehension was still evident at the end of Year 1 and at the end of Year 2. At the end of Year 1 the differences between the experimental and controlgroups ... language'approach andthe other concentrates more on instruction in phonics.What works? This paper focuses on the theoretical assumptionsunderlying these two approaches to the teaching of literacy, and the studies ... teachingpractice. The most recent of these reports is the Report of the National Reading Panelconvened by the Director of the NationalInstitute of Child Health and HumanDevelopment, at the request of the United...
... leave the reader to assess the significance of the differences of interest. For example, for the one-year-ahead horizon, thedifference for Q2 is only .04 greater than thedifference for Q1 and ... Average serial correlation in cash flow changes for the sample firms is predicted to be -0.36. The actual average value is -0.28 andthe median is -0.29. A t-test of the difference betweenthe ... (7) If there are no accruals (sales and purchases are cash so a =~ =0, and no inventory so Y= I 0), all the terms other than the first in equation (7) are zero andthe earnings and cash...
... vasodilation, and increases blood flow to the corpus cavernosum. The increased blood flow stimulates the endothelium lining the lacunar spaces of the corpus cavernosum to releaseendothelial NO from the ... correlation between ED and these anthropometrical measure-ments. Andersen et al. [83] investigated the relationship between obesity and ED in a younger cohort ofDanish men between aged 20–45 years and ... protein, IR and endo-thelial dysfunction-related factors. However, they didnot observe a significant difference in endothelial dys-function between exercise and non-exercise partici-pants. They also...
... at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly definedinteractions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plasto-cyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature of the interactions in the ... in [1] and in this paper). Although the curves are shallow, making extrapolation more difficult, and the number of datapoints is smaller than in the case of the interaction between Cyt f and plastocyanin ... (using MgCl2)forwild-type, K53A and R93E. The noise in the wild-type data buries any trend, if there is one. Although there is stillconsiderable noise in the K53A data, a trend in both DHà(increasing...
... Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom andthe United States. The Commission of the European ... defined by the OECD. 14 – MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT ANDTHE ENVIRONMENT âOECD 2009 A number of data series on the environment are available from UNEP, via the GEO Data Portal ... available for individual countries, for example, data for the Nordic countries, Netherlands and Switzerland (TemaNord, 2003). The Households andthe Environment Survey run by Statistics Canada...
... landlords can use their nominal space, and landlords cannot removetheir mailboxes, smoke alarms, or fire extinguishers from the space regard-less of the landlords’ desires. The distinction between ... treatment of customers and workers, andthe more politi-cally progressive views of the antidiscrimination norm embodied in the ADA’s requirement nexus betweenthe exaction andthe regulatory alternative, ... Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Powell, believed the distinction betweenthe lost entitlements in Hodel and Andrus wasunduly slender to sustain and therefore argued that Andrus should be limited...
... prosecuting the claim of homage, andthe continuance of hostilities is really explained by the ill-will between March and Douglas andthe old feud betweenthe Douglases andthe Percies. In June, 1402, the ... the poet of the Lady of the Lake."These fertile plains, that soften'd vale, Were once the birthright of the Gael; The stranger came with ironhand, And from our fathers reft the land."An ... _i.e._ the Devil.]An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) 11 place-names. The fact that the language of the Angles and Saxons completely superseded, in England, the tongue...
... notknown in advance, and their number is massive. The relationship between standard RE systems and the new Open IE paradigm is analogous to the relationship between lexicalized and unlexicalizedparsers. ... (Culotta and McCallum, 2004) is used. H-CRF also computes the Monge Elkan distance (Monge and Elkan, 1996) between the relations predicted by O-CRF and R1-CRF and includes the result in the feature ... training example and then used to generate a prediction for the left-out example. The meta-classifier is trained using the predictions of the base-level classifiers as features, and the true label...
... are Lewis, Coggin, and Roll (1994) and Niblack, Szayna, and Bor-deaux (1996). Outside RAND, versions of the framework are in use by the Air Force, the Army, and elements of the Joint Staff. ... systems and tools, and training and education.RAND Project AIR FORCERAND Project AIR FORCE (PAF), a division of the RAND Corpo-ration, is the U.S. Air Force’s federally funded research and develop-ment ... operations and what the results imply for the configura-tion of the Air Force ACS structure. e findings support the efficacy of the emerging expeditionary ACS structural framework and the associated...